Posted in Media, personal, tagged 300, alex james, alfred hitchcock, beer, child birth, children, cynic, ebay, eli roth, frank miller, freddy krueger, friday the 13th, gladiators, halloween, hostel, jason voorhees, manic monday, michael myers, nightmare on elm street, parenting, psycho, robert englund, roman empire, saw, shotgun, socrates, sparta, state of affairs, the bangles, two assholes talking about nerd stuff, united states on July 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I wish I could tell you it was a good morning, but as of this writing it’s 9:45 on Monday and I just got back from two days’ worth of baby showers. I’m nursing a slight hangover and the horrendously sub-par gyro dinner I had last night is conspiring with the Coronas and the [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Environment, Government, Media, tagged benefits, children, christie pits, city workers, CUPE, dalton mcguinty, david miller, Environment, ernest hemingway, garbage, garbage pickup, health care, legislation, lifeguards, mike harris, ontario, osstf, parks, recreation, retirement, rollover, sick days, strike, swimming pools, toronto, tourism., union on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
All right. Fine. I’ve been avoiding this for weeks, but this morning was the final straw. So you win: you get your way, loyal readers who’ve been pestering me about this. I’ll talk about the stupid fucking garbage strike.
Posted in Government, Media, personal, tagged brats, children, computers, gifted, jail, jeffrey dahmer, june cleaver, justice system, maddox, money, norman rockwell, parenting, parents, private school, regent park, responsibility, sex education, spongebob squarepants, toronto on July 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few years ago I was driving with my mother through the small Ontario town where my parents live. We were tooling along a residential road in order to avoid the crushing traffic of the main street at the tail end of rush hour. It was late summer, so all around us were [...]
Posted in Government, Media, tagged bus shelters, children, gas mask, iraq, johnson junior public school, killzone 2, night vision, rapists, scarborough, sony, toronto, victoria secret on March 31, 2009 | 9 Comments »
From Toronto Star:
About 300 Toronto bus shelter ads for a violent video game are coming down ahead of schedule [last] week after complaints surfaced about its images of war and violence.
Teacher Davis Mirza emailed Sony Canada, which makes PlayStation games, after seeing an ad for Killzone 2 in the bus shelter near his Scarborough school.
“My [...]
